Comments on: It’s the end of the world as we know it … and I feel fine? http://webcomicoverlook.com/2008/09/07/its-the-end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it-and-i-feel-fine/ Webcomic reviews are serious business. Sat, 26 May 2012 03:27:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Lord Seth http://webcomicoverlook.com/2008/09/07/its-the-end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it-and-i-feel-fine/#comment-793 Tue, 09 Sep 2008 21:57:19 +0000 http://webcomicoverlook.wordpress.com/?p=1109#comment-793 Dresden Codak went downhill ever since it tried to impose a serious storyline. The problem is that it took characters that had no personality whatsoever and suddenly expected us to care about them. Their lack of personality was fine when it was a quirky, nonsensical story, but you can’t just suddenly take personality-less characters and put them in a serious story and expect us to care about them. The plot is confusing and I don’t get it either, so I can’t care about the characters or the plot.

While Minus has the same problem as Dresden Codak in that the characters have no personality whatsoever, it stayed funny and lighthearted so it managed to work. If it had gone for Cerebus Syndrome, it would’ve ended up like Dresden Codak.

At least when Neon Genesis Evangelion went into being especially serious and dark, it had already set up the character’s personalities so we could care a certain degree about what happened to them, which Dresden Codak never did. I think Dresden Codak is kind of a lesson in how NOT to imitate Neon Genesis Evangelion.

I’ll cut my rant short here because I have a tendency to rant about how DC has gone downhill, but I honestly can’t bring myself to care if the world is ending in the series because I don’t care about the characters and I have no idea what’s even going on in the series.

]]> By: El Santo http://webcomicoverlook.com/2008/09/07/its-the-end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it-and-i-feel-fine/#comment-785 Tue, 09 Sep 2008 03:48:29 +0000 http://webcomicoverlook.wordpress.com/?p=1109#comment-785 Aw, man. You know what killed the joke for me? The fact that I knew someone survived in Minus and I couldn’t remember who it was. So I was wondering if you were being serious about Francisco Franco coming back to life.

It turned out I was wrong. The last living man on Earth was Larry Fine.

]]> By: Christopher http://webcomicoverlook.com/2008/09/07/its-the-end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it-and-i-feel-fine/#comment-781 Mon, 08 Sep 2008 08:07:31 +0000 http://webcomicoverlook.wordpress.com/?p=1109#comment-781 In March of this year, Minus concluded with everyone in the world still dead.

Except for Generalissimo Francisco Franco, who came back to life. Go figure.

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